[Newsbot]

Title: Big Bang machine sets power record
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-11-30 17:40:12
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Warning: May contain science content.

To get a grip on that number - 7TeV -; that amount of energy can instantly melt 500kg of metallic copper. Every 10 hours, they 'dump' the proton beam into an 8m , 10 tonne block of graphite which is encased in 1000 tonnes of concrete, but first use magnets to re-focus the beam from one proton thick to about a human hair thick. Then they 'spray' it irregularally around the 10 ton block of graphite, which is the only substance that can take the heat. The graphite still rises in temperature to 750C.

If they didn't refocus and 'spray' the beam, it could melt a hole through 40 meters thick of copper.

[Lemmy]

That sounds like something we should keep from the North Koreans.

[Hitchy]

hahaha

[Pseudonym]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Warning: May contain science content.

To get a grip on that number - 7TeV -; that amount of energy can instantly melt 500kg of metallic copper. Every 10 hours, they 'dump' the proton beam into an 8m , 10 tonne block of graphite which is encased in 1000 tonnes of concrete, but first use magnets to re-focus the beam from one proton thick to about a human hair thick. Then they 'spray' it irregularally around the 10 ton block of graphite, which is the only substance that can take the heat. The graphite still rises in temperature to 750C.

If they didn't refocus and 'spray' the beam, it could melt a hole through 40 meters thick of copper.

Are you getting those numbers from the same size particle beam that are using in the article? 7 TeV is enormous for a single proton, and considering the 300 trillion protons in the particle beam just boggles the mind.

And, as a side note, how long until our Death Star laser is feasible?

[Proculation]

1 TeV: one teraelectronvolt (a million million electronvolts), or 1.602×10-7 J, about the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito

200 MeV: total energy released in nuclear fission of one U-235 atom (on average; depends on the precise break up); this is 82 terajoules per kilogram, or twenty thousand tonnes of TNT equivalent per kilogram.

[DrCaleb]

Pseudonym Pseudonym:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Warning: May contain science content.

To get a grip on that number - 7TeV -; that amount of energy can instantly melt 500kg of metallic copper. Every 10 hours, they 'dump' the proton beam into an 8m , 10 tonne block of graphite which is encased in 1000 tonnes of concrete, but first use magnets to re-focus the beam from one proton thick to about a human hair thick. Then they 'spray' it irregularally around the 10 ton block of graphite, which is the only substance that can take the heat. The graphite still rises in temperature to 750C.

If they didn't refocus and 'spray' the beam, it could melt a hole through 40 meters thick of copper.

Are you getting those numbers from the same size particle beam that are using in the article? 7 TeV is enormous for a single proton, and considering the 300 trillion protons in the particle beam just boggles the mind.

And, as a side note, how long until our Death Star laser is feasible?

From the original start up Article in IEEE Spectrum. I did mess up on the units. You'd think they'd know better than to use "metres" and "tons" in the same damn article. Not like anyone hasn't smacked billion dollar probes into Mars because of mistakes like that.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astr ... to-stop-it

I'm just wondering how to attach it to a shark's head.

[sandorski]

Wouldn't want that Hydro Bill.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

sandorski sandorski:

Wouldn't want that Hydro Bill.

I think I've had a few that were close. Not in power consumption, just the bill.